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A soft pitter-patter drummed his window. The sound and visual of raindrops had distracted him.
Turning his head back to his work he noted how he had been distracted a lot these days.
Most of it was because of you. Your laugh, smile, voice, hell everything about you was distracting. No book about his students was nearly as interesting as one of your personal stories.
He could listen to them for hours if he could.
He scoffed at the thoughts that flooded his mind.
What was he saying?
His head turned back to the window as he let his mind wander. It wasn’t a bad thing, maybe.
You’re a friend he values. Admittedly maybe he felt about you a little differently than his other friends.
But for some reason, he just felt like he had to be in your life. Maybe it was-
A deep coughing erupted from him. His thoughts were shut down as he regained himself.
Number seven’s assistant destroying his Yoshiro had left him weaker, more vulnerable . He could feel it.
He could see it too as a petal fell from his mouth onto his desk.
A baffled look sprays on his face.
A petal?
Upon closer inspection, he was able to notice blood droplets.
How? And him?
He’s not even human.
The fact hits him harder than the petals.
Would you even want to be with someone who’s not human?
Oh,
Oh.
He puts his head on the desk turning towards the window. A deep sigh escaped him.
He wasn’t sure if he could die. He knew he wouldn’t if old age but would he have other causes, like Hanahaki?
The question was irreverent to him as his thoughts circled around one
Did he really like you?
Of course he liked your company and just about everything about you.
But you and him?
Together?
He wasn’t sure.
It was a foreign feeling to him.
As a supernatural you lose most human emotions, why would you need them anyways?
This scared him.
He liked things like books, tea, and some of his students to an extent but you?
As a friend he did.
But as a lover?
His heart rate picked up as the thought danced around his mind.
It would be nice to have you around more often
To have you finally drop the formalities that you only let down occasionally.
To have you exchange books with him he knew you’d love.
To…
To have you just be his.
He didn’t hate the sound of that.
He realizes what’s truly going on as soon as he uttered another dry cough, the feeling leaving him slightly shaky.
What the hell was he going to do?
He examined the petal again
A daffodil.
These typically had about 7 petals.
A week.
He had a week.
Assuming he can’t die from this but better safe than sorry he thought as he placed the petal back down.
Was it too late for him? He’d known you for how long now?
That question was not as important as when he had these feelings.
And deep down he knew he’d had these feelings the first time you met.
It hadn’t been a good day.
The kids weren't listening, the coffee pot was out when he got there, and he saw that one kid Kou had kept going into the girls bathroom and he was behind on grading.
And then you came in.
He’d known you’ve been introducing yourself but he just hadn’t expected you to be so well, moving.
Or lack thereof.
All it had been was a simple introduction but he could have sworn nothing else mattered.
It was your first meeting for god's sake but he just couldn’t stop his mind from thinking about what the hell was going on and why it was so easy for you two to communicate.
He hadn’t made a single snide remark because he was too busy just listening .
And then you left. Claiming something about not wanting to be a problem but his internal voice screamed at him to just hold your attention a little longer.
And he did.
“No you’re fine...” He mumbled.
“What? Sorry I didn’t hear you the first time..” You said with a sweet smile across your face.
“You’re fine! I don’t have anything planned right now… “ He trailed off but hadn’t lost his volume or eye contract.
He found something out that day.
He loved your eyes.
He had ended up giving you a tour of the school. No one had officially done it yet and you had claimed to get lost a few to many times.
He was just glad he could spend more time with you but you eventually had to go.
When you did he swore he could feel the warm grin that had plastered on his face the whole time slowly fade.
A real smile, not a smirk, a real one.
How had you evoked that out of him on your first day when most couldn’t for years?
It was still a mystery to him.
To this day as he sat at his desk, wondering when exactly did this start?
The answer seemed to stay the same as he thought.
Sense day one.
Really what the hell was he supposed to do?
He hasn’t shown any interest in you or at least he didn’t believe he did.
Till the damned fox showed up.
She had just strolled in acting like she owned the place.
He wished he could just make her into soup or something.
“Okay what do you want?” An annoyed tone seeped into his voice.
“Geez just came to tell you I could feel your bad vibes from over there.”
Her paw pointed towards the door.
He rolled his eyes.
“Why are you really here?”
“I was told to come here by number seven. Said you’ve been distracted lately”
There that word was again.
“You’re doing it again! Is this because of them? And don’t play dumb.” His eyes narrowed as the last part left her mouth.
He decided to cut his losses.
“Do you think we’d work?” He said with a sigh.
A little taken back at how easily he admitted it she was at a little loss for words. She quickly responded.
“Well..” She hesitated.
She knew the truth if it all was that, you both liked each other but at the end of the day,
You were human,
He wasn’t.
Which is why she was having so much trouble saying anything.
She knew how this could play out and she didn’t want to see that happen. But, she also didn’t want to see him lose you to someone else. Someone who was not him.
Because she could tell the feeling was requited.
No words came out of Yako but he wishes they did.
Anything would be better than just waiting.
He sighs, “listen, Yako thanks but-“
“You two could work.”
A sigh left him. A heavy one.
“But,”
He tensed.
“You would have to tell them about you, the real you.”
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